This brochure briefly summarizes the systematic approach of the Global Programme Responsible Land Policy implemented by the German Development Cooperation Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and provides examples.

This brochure presents recent digital innovations that enable a more effective, efficient and transparentin land management. It refers to examples in Peru, Ethiopia and Laos.

The Neighbourhood Planning and Design Guide is a comprehensively updated and revised version of its predecessor, the Guidelines for Human Settlement Planning and Design, commonly known as the Red Book. The Red Book, published in 2000, was preceded by a series of guideline documents aimed at improving the quality of settlement planning and design.

The German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) created the Special Initiative “One world, No hunger” aimed to eradicate extreme hunger and poverty. Special focus is on Action Area 6 “Promotion of responsible land use and improvement of access to land”. The German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) has presently implemented the Global Programme on Responsible Land Policy in 6 countries: Peru, Laos, Benin, Madagascar, Ethiopia and Uganda.

In recent years, numerous companies have made commitments to better recognize and respect land rights throughout their supply chains. For Illovo Sugar Africa ("Illovo"), Africa’s largest producer of sugar, this entailed committing to "zero tolerance for land grabs," as well as adopting its Group Guidelines on Land and Land Rights ("Guidelines") and Road Map on Land Rights ("Road Map").

The LandAssess Tool is a risk assessment and management framework. It provides a clear and simple set of checklists that generate a report to help companies assess and manage how they respect land rights. This tool responds to the gap between companies’ commitments to recognize land rights and their ability to give life to that commitment in their operations.

The LandAssess Tool is a risk assessment and management framework. It provides a clear and simple set of checklists that generate a report to help companies assess and manage how they respect land rights. This tool responds to the gap between companies’ commitments to recognize land rights and their ability to give life to that commitment in their operations.

Networks of academic and higher education institutions are proven platforms for knowledge sharing and experiences in education exchange. During the International Workshop LALA LADM+, 5-9 November 2018 in Quito Ecuador, organized by Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE (ESPE University) Ecuador and Kadaster International together with Faculty ITC University of Twente from the Netherlands, Latin America Land Administration Network - LALAN was established. Representatives from seven countries from Latin American continent, Spain and the Netherlands were present at the workshop.

การจัดการลุ่มนํ้าที่มีเป้าหมายเพื่อความยั่งยืนโดยมีแนวคิดการจัดการลุ่มนํ้าที่ไม่ได้แยกส่วนทรัพยากรนํ้าออกจากทรัพยากรอื่นในระบบนิเวศลุ่มนํ้า เช่น ความหลากหลายทางชีวภาพ ที่ดิน ป่าไม้ และวิถีชีวิตผู้คนซึ่งเป็นทั้งฐานคิดและเครื่องมือที่มีประสิทธิภาพในการใช้และดูแลลุ่มนํ้าอย่างยั่งยืน เพื่อความเข้าใจเรื่องการจัดการลุ่มนํ้าว่าคืออะไร จัดการอะไร จัดการอย่างไรจึงจะพิสูจน์ได้ว่าเป็นการจัดการลุ่มนํ้าแบบยั่งยืน การเรียนรู้จากรูปธรรมความยั่งยืน ในพื้นที่ลุ่มนํ้าอิง ที่เป็นการจัดการลุ่มนํ้าแบบบูรณาการ โดยชุมชนและความร่วมมือหลากหลายภาคส่วน (Integrated Watershed Resources Management) รูปแบบการจัดการเป็นกา

The living lab approach underlying LANDSUPPORT activities is aimed at involving policy and decision makers and potential users from the very beginning and throughout all project phases, ensuring that the delivered DSS tools can actually be used.
With this aim preparatory workshops bringing together policy makers in land management have been planned at EU/national/regional/local level. The outcomes of national and local workshops will feed into the EU workshop in order to ensure that local and national instances are brought forward at the EU level.

Humanitarian and development organizations working in conflict-affected settings have a particular responsibility to do no harm and contribute to the wellbeing of the population without bias. The highly complex, politicized realities of work in conflict- and post-conflict settings often require quick, pragmatic and results-oriented decisions, the foundations of which remain frequently implicit. Such decisions might follow an intrinsic logic or situational pragmatism rather than intensive deliberation.